The mystery xenon in Earth’s atmosphere came from icy comets

The moon is younger than we thought according to data form the Rosetta spacecraft that shows…

The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star

An exoplanet discovered orbiting a massive, scorching star 650 light years away is so hot that…

NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time

Naming a solar probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker breaks the space agency’s tradition of only honouring…

Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light…

Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light…

The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe

It gives everything mass, and now some people think the Higgs boson sparked the stupendous split-second…

General relativity passes test at Milky Way’s central black hole

Stars orbiting the supermassive black hole have been used to test Einstein’s famous theory for the…

The dreams our stuff is made of

Ahead of our Dreamers’ Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings…

The dreams our stuff is made of

Ahead of our Dreamers’ Club discussion at London's Barbican centre on 29 June, author Simon Ings…

SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research

The recycled capsule contained the first Chinese experiment to join the US side of the International…